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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781366503321

Autore

Higgs Colleen <1962->

Titolo

Lava lamp poems [[electronic resource] /] / by Colleen Higgs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athlone, South Africa, : Hands-On Books, c2011

ISBN

1-283-06346-8

9786613063465

1-920397-84-1

1-920397-61-2

1-920397-47-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (60 p.)

Soggetti

South African poetry (English)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Flying off the handle; Swingball; The other side; My grandfather and other ancestors; 1986; The comfort of parquet; Excuses; My Yeoville; From a balcony; Unfinished things - a lament; the poet and the woodcutter; Cheap thrills; Other women; Thoughts I started having about the Wimpy after I saw my ex-lover there with his long-lost-after-all-these-years American girlfriend; On wanting a washing machine; Stroke; Fish; Missing horses; When someone dies; Make her breathe keep her safe; Sleep deprivation; Marriage; Swings and roundabouts; Blaming Lulu

She should be sleeping in her own bedAn ode to Perry; Who are you?; Wolf soup; When granny died; Everything in our house; Notes from a new country; Jeppestown, 1994; Forest Town, 2005; The Mount Nelson Hotel, 2006; Robben Island, 2006; Centurion, 2007; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Colleen Higgs launched Modjaji Books, the first publishing house for southern African women writers, in 2007. Her first collection of poetry, Halfborn Woman, was published in 2004. She lives in Cape Town with her partner and her daughter.